Profile of ShadowLinkX37

• Retreating from bad engagements: Excellent work here. When you didn't see a way to win an engagement you retreated immediatly and saved manpower this way.
  
  
• Capping order: Pretty solid. Captured the south and then went for northern cutoff, VPs, and munitions garrison.
  
  
• Unit composition: Also pretty solid. You had your AT guns, infantry, armor, supporting MGs. The only thing I would have added is maybe a mortar to dislodge garrisons and attack support weapons like the rakatten.
  

• Immediatly selected shock rifle frontline: This is a mistake and limits your commander selection while you gain nothing from the commander immediatly. The moment you select a commander you should be gaining some form of advantage unless you know for a fact you're going to be required to lock in that commander at a later stage. Locking in shock rifle frontline doesn't give you anything until 2 CPs. I recommend you wait and see if it's required by at least 2 CPs.
  
  
• Teched molotovs: This was a premature teching of a sidetech anti garrison tool. You did eventually need it to clear the garrison by your forward house but you could've just taken that fight from long range by the tank wreck or fence. Sturmpioneers are "ok" at range but will always get out damaged by a long range squad like conscripts as long as the squad uses cover. Molotov tech also does not need to be researched. It was rather redundant for you to get an engineer flamethrower and molotovs. The flamethrower should be fine to use alone especially since you can keep it on the field when you need it since conscripts can merge. Also you will need to pickup another engineer later in the game since eastern front armies repair speeds are slower than the western front armies. Plus you'll need a sweeper against higher level players.
  
  
• Unsupported MGs: I saw MGs go unsupported when they were setting up in garrisons. Even inside a garrison a good player can just continuously flank the MG and force it to rotate while getting consistant damage while your MG cannot shoot back. You need to avoid this if possible by supporting it or waiting till you can move up support so you can take the garrison. Losing your MG because sturms are circling it will just force a retreat out of you. Also once you saw his JLI you should know it is the scavenge doctrine, and that that doctrine holds infiltration grenades. Infiltration grenades will level wooden buildings when thrown from high model counts. Usuaully 5 or 4 if the building is slightly weaker. Be wary of MGs jumping in as you could lose it immediatly to these grenades.
  
  
• Charging sturms just to throw molotovs: Bad. Upper level players will see the long whind up and dodge it and advance on your cons with sturms and force a retreat. It is better to just engage at long range behind cover if posssible and force a flank maybe. Also I saw you double toss molovtovs into a garrison at 13:27. This will inflict more damage but he just got out of the garrison and retreated. Cancel the 2nd if he exits the garrison.
  
  
• Keep your squads active: I saw squads go AFK sometimes even on negative cover. This is more of a micro issue and should improve with more gameplay and time, but it will improve faster if you really focus on keeping your squads active. You can use the tactical map or the icons in the upper right hand corner to see if you have any squads that havn't been given orders in awhile.
  
  
• Lack of mines and demos: You only planted mines in the alley behind the church. When you have munitions to spend you should always plant mines and demos. Protect your flanks with them so you are less likely to be flanked.
  
  
• Light vehicle shock value: Light vehicles are more potent the earlier they arrive in the match. When you started teching up to T3 you could've already had a T70 for about 3-4 minutes. That time is time the T70 could've been bleeding your opponet while taking no bleed yourself because T70s don't bleed manpower; they can only die. It's also time you could've applied more pressure to VPs, cutoffs, fuel and gained vet on the light vehicle. Build your light vehicles faster for the most impact.
  
  
• Vehicles: You should avoid snares at all costs with vehicles. Taking a snare reduces your vehicle effective threat substantially. You drove your T70 directly up to a volks squad and then wiped it and you were not snared. This is a missplay on his end as well as yours. You should stay at range and he should've retreated or attempted to snare. Do not rely on your opponets missplays to make your own missplays.
  
  
• Katy alpha damage: Your 1st barrage of the katy was from far behind your frontlines and thus resulted in massive scatter and not a single kill. Your 1st barrage is when your katy is at its most lethal as your opponet doesn't realize you have one. Get it as close as you can to reduce scatter while keeping it safe from anything that can kill it and then shoot it.
  
  
• Tank positioning: Once you saw his 1st p4 your T70 went into AFK fear mode. I think you were just to scared to use it while a p4 was on the field. You can still use it as the lone squad police to force retreats from extended squads at bot or top. Or you could have kept it mid and put it in recon mode so you could have had extended sight for your AT guns and tanks. SU85 was an alright choice, however you should never dive like that after 3 tanks with turrets with an assualt gun(turretless tank). You need to keep your IS2 infront of of your SU85 so your opponet cannot flank it as easily or get shots as easy.
  
  
• Could have snared at least 1 p4 at bottom just before you killed the panther but snared the wrong tank and then didn't throw the other AT nade. With no snares you only got a kill becauase his panther overextended into your AT guns. Good work on bringing those AT guns in though to cover your retreat and flank.
  
  
• Map: After the 1st p4 showed up you did not move any unit to the upper half of the map for about 15 minutes and this relaxed pressure against him. You need to make him move and force him out of position if you wish to break defences. Otherwise you enter this tug-of-war for a single part of the map(central VP) and enter ultra lategame. And OKW is the last faction you ever want to face in the ultra lategame. KTs, panthers, p4s, command panthers and of course veterancy 5. All horrifiying when they can support each other. See if you can try and setup a siege position on his schwer HQ. Losing the schwer HQ as OKW is game losing since it costs so much.
  
  
• Soviet AT gun camo: While this is nice when stationary, it makes you move slower than cloaked rakattens when you try and move. Disable it, move, setup and then reapply the cloak. Otherwise you probably will not have your AT guns in an optimal position by the time another push may come.
  
  
• Arty barrages: Lost a maxim because you didn't exit a wooden house when you saw an arty barrage coming. You should make all units leave the area when you see an arty barrage coming and always take units out of garrisons since they will instantly die if the garrison collapses.
  

Jump back to quoted post12 Apr 2017, 17:11 PM__deleted__

Centuar is joke currently ,too slow to escape danger yet too lowly armored to soak that damage.

After all it´s medium tank (like p4 or oswind) with speed of a kingtiger ...

• Floating manpower: You floated 400 manpower right after you built your 1st RE squad and this delayed your 1st rifle. This delays your capping and your fighting power but it an easy mistake to fix. Other points in the game as well you floated 500 manpower. Do your best not to float.
  
  
• Fighting unwinable engagements: If you don't gain anything by fighting an engagement there is no reason to fight. If you have 1 rifle trying to push out against 3 volks with StGs you're going to lose. Retreat, regroup and push out so you can actually push him away instead of just bleeding yourself and giving him vet.
  
  
• Mortar: The USF mortar is no where near where it used to be, but it's still a mortar. Which means it works well against slow moving units like team weapons. You saw only mobile infantry that game as he was infantry spamming. A 50cal would've been better than the mortar at that point in time.
  
  
• Rebuilding fallen officers is not usually worth it as USF. An argument can be made for the major as it has FRP, recon and arty, but not so much the CPT and LT. The LT does not have AT grenades, and has worse veterancy scaling than the standard rifleman, his only upside is he comes with a free BAR. I think a rifle would've been better than rebuilding your LT.